This development release of Mutter fixes several bugs and updates translations

Sep 5, 2013 08:27 GMT  ·  By

The second Beta release of the upcoming Mutter 3.10 window manager for the GNOME desktop environment has been released a few days ago, bringing various improvements and fixing annoying bugs.

Mutter 3.10 Beta 2 removes the man pages from deprecated utilities, adds support for idle tracking, skips CRTC reconfigurations that have no effect, ignores skip-taskbar hints on parentless dialogs, and checks event timestamps before reconfiguring.

Moreover, blending is turned off when drawing entirely opaque regions, redraws are no longer queued for obscured regions, pixbuf data is no longer saved in user data, and the following bugs have been squashed: #706582, #706598, #706787, #706729, #706825, #707081, #707090, #707250, #707267.

Mutter 3.10 Beta 2 also updates the following translations: Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Galician, Spanish, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, and Catalan. For more details, please read the official raw changelog.

Download Mutter 3.10 Beta 2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.